3 conferences, 3 immediate calls for next year's conference each time. This is now a tradition. Could we all let @dthompsondev.bsky.social and the #CYC26 team breathe for a minute! ...okay, that's enough time, bring on #CYC27 🤣
Robert Groves
Robert Groves
@robertgroves.com
robertgroves.com | ✶✶✶✶ | Chicago, IL Teaches machines irony; they reply with stack traces. Survived Leet Heat, still tastes colors. Deploys personal code at 2:42 a.m. because chaos needs company. So it goes.
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Learning about baseline CSS features in "Baseline Magic: The Art of Intent-Driven CSS" presented by @lindakat.com @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
Thinking about how to take AI from one-off task completer to full-on co-worker. Sitting in on Boston Cartwright's talk: Agents are not Apps: Stop building interfaces, Start building coworkers @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
I'm a firm believer that fun web projects need audio and audio needs to be done right. Watching Kerline Moncy's talk: What Happens When the Music Starts? The Architecture of Browser Audio @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
Watching @virtualized6ix.bsky.social to refresh and add to my tool belt for discerning and troubleshooting application issues. @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
Just watched Michael Gyarmathy walk through The Evolution of Divot: How Agents Earn Their Autonomy @commityourcode.bsky.social 🧠 Ideas swirling 💫 #CYC26
Excited to start day two of @commityourcode.bsky.social! Watching Kevin J. Scott's keynote to kick things off. #CYC26
Leveling up my UI knowledge with Kaleb Garner's talk - Design Systems 101: The Developer Approach to Better Frontends @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
Listening to why modularity and layering to build adaptable, scalable, and maintainable software still matters. Presented by Noah Harris @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
Didn't think I'd see a hyper-specific talk that hits close to work. Listening to @nerajno.bsky.social discuss GEO @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
Here like a zombie, for all the brains! 🧟🧠 Watching @bytesofbree.bsky.social s talk: Give Your Agent a Second Brain (and a UI to Match) @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
How can we know that LLM feature is working? About to find out with Kyle Taylor @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
Taking in the practical and fun aspects of AI agents with @joelhooks.com at @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
Learning about fine-tuning with Reece Iriye and getting past the hype-cycles and focusing on the engineering problems and solutions. @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
Alexander Crettenand is convincing us that managing devs is not like herding cats... it's more like herding horses. At @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
Watching @roxyrodbeck.bsky.social showing us how to ship it fast and fix it later at @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
*THE* @dthompsondev.bsky.social rockin' the keynote at @commityourcode.bsky.social #CYC26
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special edition of the Learn With Jason livestream is back, Thursday at 9:30am PT! what's the value in working on new web frameworks today? why should we care at all? @ryansolid.bsky.social has been working on Solid 2.0 and grappling with the shifting landscape of OSS youtube.com/live/8f09f50...
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My first blog post is live! Hampton Roads HTML Day started with a friend asking where she could put her poetry online. Her question eventually filled a room with ~50 people writing HTML by hand and cheering every site that went live. ryanmcgovern.dev/blog/html-da...
The Full Stack season finale starts in a few. LFG! youtu.be/5EnKcOWLyIY?...
The Full Stack season 1 finale is tonight! 8 teams started, 3 teams remain — and tonight, only 1 team can win watch live at 6pm Pacific: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EnK...
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Desperate measures call for... Brad Wenzel: Desperate Times - Full Stand Up Special youtu.be/23L2sIZTA-E?...
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spent the better part of a week on optimizing my delaunay/voronoi implementation and all I got was this sick-ass visual so actually completely worth it potch.me/toys/delauna...
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WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! Commit your Code is 30 days away! The Call For Volunteers is now open for in person in Dallas! We need around 40 volunteers to help but we don't want you to miss the whole experience. Volunteer shifts are 5 hours long. Then we want you to be an attendee! forms.gle/aMSof79f9LfF...
I meant to post about this a few days ago: my hackathon submission is a very meta landing page for @codetv.dev's Web Dev Challenge Season 3, Episode 5. This was my first time playing with @gsap-greensock.bsky.social. It's a pretty cool JS animation library. codetv-webflow-hackathon.webflow.io
animation is fun. community activities are fun. winning stuff is fun to celebrate the launch of the latest Web Dev Challenge, we've cooked up a hackathon with Webflow & @gsap-greensock.bsky.social that's fun ×3 build an animated landing page & you could win! details: codetv-gsap-cloud.webflow.io
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Steam has approved my game for release August 13th! I plan to launch it on stage at @renderatl.com during my talk about making games using React JS. No pressure!
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"we've got some DEVIOUSNESS in store for you today" — new episode of The Full Stack drops on Thursday at noon Pacific 6 teams left, and this time they need to ship a full, working MVP. join me, @kelseyhightower.com, the team members, and more during the premiere www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4gZ...
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NEW Web Dev Challenge premieres in 15 minutes! @cassiecodes.bsky.social joins as the advisor to challenge @shaw.city, @davidkpiano.bsky.social, @iljavaneck.bsky.social, Dennis Snellenberg, and @strange.website to build the greatest animated landing page using @gsap-greensock.bsky.social
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Might change the title, but had to say something. youtu.be/UQ_ybfwPyw8?...
Looking forward to this regardless of how it turns out. If it ends up being bad, I'll probably still enjoy it and then read the book for the nth time. And who knows maybe in the future I'll have the opportunity to use a peripheral to visit a stub where they've nailed it. 📅❓🤠🏃➡️🍎📺📅✅
In honor of the anniversary of famed author William Gibson's multi-award-winning science fiction novel, Apple TV released a new teaser for Neuromancer. / #Neuromancer #WilliamGibson #AppleTV
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Our friends @indiecitygames.org are currently fundraising for their Chicago Indie Game Showcase 2026. Check ‘em out and help support more weird, wonderful Midwest-made indie projects! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ind...
"The old asymmetric broadband model (fat downstream, thin upstream) was engineered for passive consumption. That model is finished."
There is no one out there making meaning of the shifts in technology infrastructure like @om.co This piece pulls together the last few days of his blog posts about how AI is changing infrastructure needs (plus capital spending) and ties it up with a bow. Go read it.
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Made a suggestion on @codetv.dev's Learn with Jason stream today. The results are in... (1/4)
You should go watch the stream. Vibe coding success was had... followed by vibe coding failure. Remember to commit y'all! 😆 (4/4)
Made a suggestion on @codetv.dev's Learn with Jason stream today. The results are in... (1/4)
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another late ship, with help from @ichris.bsky.social: we're launching a new podcast at @codetv.dev called The Web Dev Podcast these are short (15–30 min), video and audio options, talking to experts in tech about what's new in tools + how they fit into your stack codetv.dev/series/web-d...
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i wrote about my new hobby project overreacted.io/introducing-...
Background music for your next Sev-1 triage call.
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Clerk put up $25,000 for the winner of the Next.js Conf Hackathon last month, and @codetv.dev partnered up to host and hang out with the teams. this was VERY fun, and we're cooking up something even bigger with the @clerk.com team for next year — stay tuned! 👀
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A Colorful Poster Appears! Selling my CSS color voronoi map as a print-on-demand poster so it actually exists! I ordered a test print and they did a good job. get yours! potch-dot-store.printful.me/product/css-...